Get your iPhone to READ ANYTHING aloud to you

Get your iPhone to READ ANYTHING aloud to you

This is NOT one of our normal posts (it’s got NOTHING to do with account collections!) but there’s a little used function on the iPhone that lets you listen to anything displayed on your screen.

An email, a website, a pdf document even an entire book (iBook, Kindle, etc) – ANYTHING on your screen.

Enjoy.

How to set it up
* settings
* general
* accessibility
* speech
* speak selection – slide to show green
* speak screen – slide to show green

How to listen
swipe two fingers down from the very top of the screen (in the black part above all icons).
This will appear.* the tortoise and the hare, slow down or speed up the speech
* the |<< and |>> take you one page backward or forward
* pause and play is self-explanatory

Siri doesn’t read as well as a human being, of course, but once you get used to its monotone delivery and the occasional mispronounced word, it does a surprisingly good job.

NOTES:
1 If you’re going to listen to a long website or a book length item, temporarily re-set the auto-lock to NEVER so it doesn’t cut out on you.
—— settings | display and brightness | auto-lock | Never
2 I suggest you DON’T use VoiceOver (another function), but if you DO decide to experiment with that, look at this video to see how to turn it off!!